Urban Agriculture and Openspace at The Greening of Detroit

The Greening of Detroit’s mission is to “guide and inspire the growth of a ‘greener’ Detroit through planting and educational programs, environmental leadership, advocacy, and by building community capacity.” One of the ways The Greening engages the community to achieve this mission is through urban gardening and agriculture projects. Since 2003, The Greening of Detroit has played a key role in our city’s emerging movement to achieve a ‘greener’ city while transforming the food system. Our accomplishments include working with our partners in The Garden Resource Program to provide farming resources and educational opportunities to over 15,000 urban gardeners of all ages each year in the cities of Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park and operating multiple urban farms and nutrition education programs across the City.

Help our Urban Agriculture and Openspace (UAO) Library Grow!!

Our UAO library is a great resource for urban gardeners and farmers in Detroit. Impressive and diverse, it’s currently stocked with 585 books and other reference materials ranging in topics from cooking, beekeeping, gardening and landscaping, to farming, permaculture, soil, composting and much much more!  The Library is open from February thru October during UAO office hours, Wednesday’s from 4pm to 6pm and Friday’s from 10am to 12pm at Greening of Detroit’s main office. This is an important resource and tool to help Detroit’s farming and gardening community continue to learn, grow and thrive.

If you wish to help us in our effort to expand The UAO library please check our our wish list here. By clicking on the link, you can view the list of books that we would like to put on our shelves. You can donate books from our wish list by purchasing them online or (even better) by supporting a locally owned bookstore near you. Please send books to: ‘The Greening of Detroit, 1418 Michigan Avenue, Detroit MI 48216. Attn: Ashley Atkinson.